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Coverage of USC Viterbi School activities in the national, international and local media.

In the News Archives: 20122011 -- 2010 -- 2009 -- 2008 -- 2007 -- 2006 -- 2005 -- 2004 -- 2003

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A Smart Oilfield Technology Q&A with Iraj Ershagi
February 08, 2012
The Director of USC's Petroleum Engineering Program talks to USC Viterbi alums at Saudi Aramco.
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Daniel Lidar Talks Quantum Computing with KPFK
January 31, 2012
Lidar, Scientific Director of the USC Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center, provides what the hosts of KPFK's "Digital Culture" deem "the best explanation of quantum computing ever."
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KPCC Visits the Signal Analysis Interpretation Lab
January 10, 2012
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KPCC Reports on Viterbi Professor's
December 06, 2011
Constantinos Sioutas discusses his team's work studying air quality around Da Vinci's masterpiece, aiding preservationists in reducing pollution's effect on the painting.
Foreign Policy quotes Dean Yannis C. Yortsos
December 05, 2011
In its article on the U.S. alma maters of various world leaders, the magazine mentions new Libyan Prime Minister Abdurrahim el-Keib's time at USC.
<i>Studio 360</i> Reports On USC Viterbi Research With Microchips And Memory
November 08, 2011
Professor Ted Berger discusses his goal of creating a device to aid the formation of long-term memories in patients with severe memory loss.
Barry Boehm Discusses Agile Software Development with <i>Computerworld</i>
November 07, 2011
The director of the USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering noted that while the process can get a project fielded early it does have "some failure modes"
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Libya's New Prime Minister: A Viterbi Engineer
November 02, 2011
CNN.com reports — after 42 years of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, electrical engineer Abdurrahim El-Keib (MS EE '76) will navigate Libya's future.
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Najmedin Meshkati Stresses Need for Monitoring and Reassessment of Aviation Technology and Training
October 27, 2011
In light of a recent interim report on causes of the fatal 2009, Air France Flight 477 crash, Najm Meshkati warns aviation against complacency in the midst of advances in the industry's technology.
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Andrew Viterbi Receives Royal Academy of Engineering's International Medal
October 27, 2011
On his receipt of the top International Medal of the U.K.'s Royal Academy of Engineering, Andrew Viterbi discusses the algorithm that bears his name with the BBC World Service. Listen to the Click radio interview here.
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Viterbi School Computer Testbed Stresses Security on the Web
October 26, 2011
Terry Benzel's Information Sciences Institute-headquartered DETERLab provides researchers nationwide a safe place to study malicious code
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<i>The New York Times</i> Reports on ISI Codebreaking Coup
October 24, 2011
Kevin Knight of the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute and colleagues crack the encrypted rules for the rites of a mysterious secret society
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Wei-Min Shen's Polymorphic Robots Star on Trojan TV
October 24, 2011
The Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute is home for the devices CU@USC's student-produced news show calls 'real life transformers'
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Viterbi Robotic Research Featured in ABC News Report
October 21, 2011
ABC News interviews Maja Mataric about the Robotics Research Lab and its work studying the interactions between robots and children with autism.
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October 18, 2011
The Economic Times interviews Gérard Medioni at length for a story about "How Image Processing Will Move the World"
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Viterbi Research On the Program at Ming Hsieh Institute Inaugural Symposium
October 18, 2011
Biomedical nanotechnology expert Mauro Ferrari led off a day of presentations launching the new center for research on engineering medicine for cancer
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Najmedin Meshkati Praised for Prophetic Observation on Airliner System Vulnerability
October 17, 2011
A story in Air Transport World recalls the prescient report about the ISE safety expert's warning that it published just three days before the June 1, 2009 Air France disaster
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<I>L. A. Times</i> Reports on Viterbi Robots Built to Help Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
October 17, 2011
There's something about machines that really seems to resonate with many kids with ASD, says Maja Mataric, co-director of the Robotics Research Lab at USC. "Robots are simpler than people."
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USC Viterbi in Partnership to Build a Better, More Accessible Internet
October 11, 2011
"We're using optics to enable higher capacity communications ... to get gigabits to every access point," said Alan Willner in a USC News report on the Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN).
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Southern California Universities Unite to Produce Cleantech Businesses
October 05, 2011
The USC Stevens Institute announces that a partnership led by Caltech, and supported by USC and UCLA, has been selected to receive a $360,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a national business plan competition for young cleantech entrepreneurs.
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